[tome]

> In fact all powers act the same way - try to maximize their own power and access to resources etc

Do you think that Nazi Germany and the USSR were just "trying to maximize their own power and access to resources"?

[user982]

Why do you think they weren't?

[tome]

The Holocaust, commitment to the spread of Communism throughout the globe ... that kind of stuff.

[kuschku]

And the US didn’t do the same? They didn’t murder hundreds of millions of natives, overthrew democratically elected governments and instead put dictatorships in place to spread their antidemocratic radical capitalism?

[nixos]

>They didn’t murder hundreds of millions of natives

When we compare morality, we compare morality among contemporaries.